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It’s been a rough week for the Democratic establishment-backed ticket in District 37. First Palisades Park Mayor Christopher Chung dropped out of the Assembly after a scathing Comptroller’s Office report on his town’s governance. Then Assembly candidate Alexandra Soriano-Taveras dropped out over her comments about boycotting businesses on Teaneck’s Cedar Lane.
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Finally, New Jersey Republicans can run for office without the specter of Donald Trump haunting them. Or can they?
Conservative activist Seth Grossman’s decision to run for state Senate in the 2nd Legislative District means the kind of hard right politics Trump embraced anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and often racist will still be a force in the Republican contest there.
The two embattled Democrats who had planned to run for state Assembly in the 37th District on the ballot with state Senate candidate Gordon Johnson have backed out of the race.
Alexandra Soriano-Taveras, whose call for a boycott of Teaneck businesses last year became a renewed target for controversy this month, and Palisades Park Mayor Christopher Chung, who last week was chided by the state comptroller in a report accusing the borough of fiscal mismanagement, both said this week that they are withdrawing from consideration for June’s Assembly primary.
The withdrawals are another twist in this liberal district s intra-Democratic Party war, ignited when its longtime state senator, Loretta Weinberg, announced she is not seeking reelection in the fall.